Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 204
The descendants of Ulu ruled the larger southern islands until overthrown in the eleventh century by Paao on the Island of Hawaii.
Who acts: descendants · What happens: rule, overthrow · To what, where: larger southern islands, Island
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (descendants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 descendants | det |
| 2 | descendants | descendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ruled | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Ulu | case |
| 4 | Ulu | Ulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 descendants | nmod |
| 5 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 islands | det |
| 7 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 islands | amod |
| 8 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 islands | amod |
| 9 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ruled | obj |
| 10 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 11 overthrown | mark |
| 11 | overthrown | overthrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ruled | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 century | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 century | det |
| 14 | eleventh | eleventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 century | amod |
| 15 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 overthrown | obl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 Paao | case |
| 17 | Paao | Paao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 overthrown | obl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 Island | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Island | det |
| 20 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 overthrown | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Hawaii | case |
| 22 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Island | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ruled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past | the descendants of Ulu | the larger southern islands | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Theme | ||||
| 2 | overthrow | participle | the descendants of Ulu not said here | the Island of Hawaii | century | by Paao | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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